“My manager spared me the details of everything, but I wasn’t too demoralized because I got some tunes in films and I just love recording.”Īfter the triumphant Hyde Park show, Lynne returned back to his Los Angeles home full of energy, which he transferred to the sessions for ELO’s upcoming album, Alone in the Universe, out November 13th. “That showed me I probably shouldn’t even bother,” Lynne says. He taped a VH1 Storytellers concert and a PBS concert, but ticket sales were so dismal, the entire tour was canceled. In the summer of 2001, he released Zoom (the first ELO album since 1986’s Balance of Power) and booked an ambitious arena tour to promote it. This wasn’t the first time Lynne attempted to resurrect Electric Light Orchestra. I had so much fun doing it, I decided to come back and do a new album.” I was just knocked out, just the most wonderful crowd I’d ever seen. “I felt such relief that all these people were there, screaming and clapping to every song,” he says. “I was walking up the stairs with my fingers crossed, hoping that people hadn’t gone home since they already saw the act they came to see.”īut as he burst into the opening notes of “All Over the World,” he saw a sea of 50,000 fans singing along. “We were fenced off by the BBC, and I couldn’t see the audience,” he says. On September 14th, 2014 an extremely nervous Jeff Lynne walked onstage at London’s Hyde Park for his first major Electric Light Orchestra concert since the group folded in 1986.
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